BR TO CONSTANCE MALLESON, [7 JULY 1919]
BRACERS 19502. ALS. McMaster
Edited by S. Turcon. Reviewed by K. Blackwell

<West Lulworth>
<letterhead>
70, Overstrand Mansions,
Prince of Wales Road,
Battersea, S.W.1^, 2
Monday morning.3

This is just about plans. First, America: Langdon Davies has written4 saying there is a plan of going there, a group of us, to get in touch with Liberal opinion there — if the thing is properly worked I think it may be very important. I should hate going more than I could say, both because I loathe America and because I don’t want to be away from you; but I may feel I ought to go. I have asked for details, and am still undecided. It would mean starting early in October and returning probably in December. It seems nearly certain that in January I should go back to Cambridge.

It would suit me in some ways to be in London Sat. Sunday and Monday. If I am there, I shall have to go to the Aristotelian meetings5 which go on all those days — only Sunday I shouldn’t have to go. I don’t want to go, but I must if I am in town.

Next as to here: I avoided asking visitors from July 11 for a month, as I hoped you would be here (with C.A.).6 After that various people may or may not come, and it may be difficult for you to be here — impossible if Littlewood’s people7 come. I am sorry to have made arrangements that interfere with being with you, but I made them when you were in a different mood.

My dear one, please try to restore my belief that happiness is possible between us. I want to believe it, but I can’t unless you make some effort to persuade me, and you can only do that if we are together.

B.

I find I arrive Waterloo 6.30 Thursday, not 6.15.a

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  [document] Document 200490.

• 2

  [envelope] The Lady Constance Malleson | 6 Mecklenburgh Square | London W.C.1. Pmk: WEST LULWORTH. The present letter was mailed in the same envelope as BR’s letter of 6 July (BRACERS 19051).

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  [date] The date is taken from the envelope’s postmark.

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  Langdon Davies has written B.N. Langdon Davies of the National Council for Civil Liberties wrote on 4 July 1919 (BRACERS 78467) suggesting a Civil Libertarian lecture tour. BR did not participate. Langdon Davies did go to United States that autumn and spoke in New York on “Democracy and the Press” (New York Times, 9 Nov. 1919, p. E2).

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  Aristotelian meetings On 11 July BR read his paper “On Propositions” to the Aristotelian Society (in Papers 8).

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  C.A. (Reginald) Clifford Allen (1889–1939). For information on him, see BRACERS 19046, n.7.

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  Littlewood’s people John Edensor Littlewood (1885–1977), mathematician. His family was travelling from South Africa.

Textual Notes

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  I find I arrive Waterloo 6.30 Thursday, not 6.15. written at top